Word: churchmen
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Falwell's habit of mixing religion with American chauvinism and military policy does not sit well with many born-again churchmen. Jimmy Allen of the First Baptist Church of San Antonio, Texas, and past president of the Southern Baptist Convention warns that allegiance with political organizations is dangerous for the church. Says he: "Jesus cannot be captured by any political or economic point of view." Falwell dismisses such criticism quickly: "The issue is survival. America must be turned around." As to his bellicosity, he remarks: "Jesus was not a pacifist. He was not a sissy...
...visiting churchmen and -women walked away, frustrated and angry at their inability to make any headway with Hyde. "He's intractable," observed Patricia Gavett, national director of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights. "But I think he turned our clergy on politically." The aroused ministers quickly discovered that the politics of abortion is a bruising business. Last week a more stringent version of the Hyde amendment easily passed the House. It would ban federal funds for all abortions except cases in which a woman's life is in danger. As in past years, the Senate is expected...
...which have become commonplace since the 1972 "Yushin" (revitalization) Constitution promulgated by the Park regime. Lee and Paik are only two of several hundred South Korean citizens who have suffered arrest, imprisonment, and in many cases even torture, for peacefully criticizing the government. Among others jailed are university students, churchmen, journalists, lawyers, poets, and intellectuals...
...shuns anti-church activities. The commission insisted that it still favors "a wide spectrum" of individual interpretation. Indeed, Schulz was only the third clergyman in this century to be acted against by German Protestants for doctrinal reasons. Schulz's notions are not new, or even rare. But churchmen who reach such views customarily leave the church or at least stop ministering to a congregation. Schulz's tragedy, noted the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, lay in his refusal "to recognize the contradiction between his teachings and exercising his office...
Einstein soon found himself embroiled in controversy. Some churchmen perceived his theory, which did not rely on the old Newtonian absolutes, as an attack on religion. Boston's Cardinal O'Connell charged that relativity was "cloaked in the ghastly apparition of atheism." For a rabbi who asked him frankly if he believed in God, Einstein recalled a famous Jewish apostate: "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of all that exists, not in the God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings...